> but maybe with a few tens of bucks more three of the terrible limits could be removed: the limitations in the color attribute Today, i think it is an ingenio

> but maybe with a few tens of bucks more three of the terrible limits could be removed: the limitations in the color attribute Today, i think it is an ingenious design feature, if we consider memory size and bandwidth as a hard constraint (which was, as memory was significant expense in that time). It uses 1.125 b/px, which is almost as efficient as an monochrome mode, while still offers all 16 colors on screen. In contrast, e.g., CGA has either hi-res (640x200) monochrome, low-res (320x200) 4 color, or super-low-res (160x100) 16 color mode. If it had offered a graphic mode with block colors, it could have almost hi-res with 16 colors, just with block color limitation. If for exa